C'est la veille de Thanksgiving et il neige à Great Plains, Montana, lorsque Larry monte dans la Cadillac de sa tante Doris, qui doit le conduire chez sa mère, à Seattle. Larry a dix-sept ans, Doris est jolie, elle s'arrête pour boire dans les bars et parler avec des inconnus. C'est l'aventure. Il neige aussi à Paris, Charley Matthews et Helen marchent dans les rues, courbés sous les rafales de vent glacé. Charley Matthews est écrivain, il n'a aucun succès, il est déprimé et sa fille lui manque, comme toujours à l'approche de Noël. Helen ne pense qu'à faire l'amour et à manger. A partir de ces deux couples étrangement assortis, Richard Ford se livre à des variations éblouissantes sur le thème de l'intimité.
In the aftermath of his divorce and the death of his son, Frank Bascombe struggles to come to terms with failure and tries to find consolation in the arms of a new girlfriend. What he hoped would be an idyllic adventure turns into a succession of calamities.
Now a critically acclaimed film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, co-written by Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and directed by Paul Dano The setting is Great Falls, Montana, where the Rockies end and where, in 1960, the promise of good times seems as limitless as the sweep of the prairies beyond. This is where the Brinson family hopes to find a better life. Instead, sixteen-year-old Joe Brinson watches his parents discover the limits of their marriage and, at the same time, the unexpected depths of dignity and courage that remain even when love dies.
With perhaps his fiercest intensity to date, Richard Ford, America's most unflinching chronicler of modern life, is drawn to amorous relationships inside, out and to the sides of marriage. In these extraordinary stories all human relations, our entire sense of right and wrong, are put into vivid and unforgettable play.
Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he's looking for--amid a conflagration of violence that's as shocking as it is inevitable. "This is one of those books that hit you hard...a story filled with breathing characters and genius-crafted dialogue between moments of consummate description.... I can't be unbiased. I'm mad for this book."--Elizabeth Ashton, Houston Chronicle
